To roam the far, the foreign land.

“There lives the marble, wrought by art.

That clime the youth would gain; he braves

The ocean’s fury, and his heart

Leaps in him, like the sunny waves

That bear him onward; and the light

Of hope within his bosom beams,

Like the phosphoric ray at night

That round the prow so cheerly gleams.

But still his eye would backward turn,